For U.S. in Brazil, the Honeymoon Continues

Every Cup Presents a New Roadway for U.S. Soccer

This is what happens in the heat of a World Cup. It was Monday night in Rio de Janeiro, and up north, the U.S. men's national soccer team had unlocked Ghana 2-1 to take its opening round match at the 2014 Cup. On the sidewalk near the Copacabana beach, I encountered a merry swarm of U.S. fans, many of them dressed in the team's red-white-and-blue Popsicle jerseys. It turned out they weren't merely a cluster of soccer...